Lost three weeks of work when my drawing tablet driver crashed mid-project

I was about 60 hours into a big illustration for a client in Portland when my tablet just stopped responding. The screen froze and the pen cursor was stuck in the corner of my display. I tried restarting the driver like I always do but nothing worked. After an hour of panic I found out a Windows update had broken the driver completely. I had to uninstall everything and roll back the update which took another two hours. By the time I got back in, my brush settings and custom palettes were all wiped because the driver reset to defaults. I didn't make my Tuesday deadline and the client had to wait until Thursday. Has anyone else had their tablet driver just nuke their workspace like that?

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john_cooper26d ago

Honestly, did you try using your keyboard shortcuts to save your workspace presets before the driver went nuts? I had a similar scare with my old Intuos where I lost all my custom hotkeys and it took me a whole day to rebuild them. Now I just screenshot my settings page and keep it on my phone just in case.

terry_carter1526d ago

Counterpoint, @john_cooper: backing up presets just encourages sloppy driver habits.